WeeklyUpdates/2010-08-23

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Friends of the Tree

Mary Colvig wrote in, "I wanted to nominate the following people for pitching in on tours last week: Matthew Zeier, Daisuke, Jono, Dave Dash, Bret Reckard, Sara Yu, & Vineel Reddy."

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 23 August

Tuesday, 24 August

Wednesday, 25 August

• Community Marketing Call at 10 a.m. PDT/17:00 UTC on the Mozilla marketing channel. Stay tuned for the agenda.
• Web Universe brown bag on air.mozilla.org at 12:30 pacific

Thursday, 26 August

• Web site task force at 10 pacific

Friday, 27 August

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox 4

• QA working through FF4 beta 4 validation, chasing a couple bugs around RTL support and support for PPC, but might be ready to sign off today
• Feature freeze targeted for next week, a lot of work needs to stabilize quickly, or miss

Firefox 3.6

Firefox 3.6.9

• Will send the go for build #1 later today
• Investigating/watching a possible regression

Thunderbird

• Advertised major updates from Tb2 and Tb3.0.x are live, and we're ramping up the throttle!
• 3.1.3 and 3.0.7 are scheduled for simultaneous release with the analogous Firefox updates.

Older Branch Work

Firefox 3.5.12

• Will send the go for build #1 later today

Drumbeat

• Registration for the Drumbeat Festival opens up this week

• Mozilla & P2PU School of Webcraft: Registration for first "beta" semester opens this Wed, Aug 25
• Project goal: developer training that's 100% free, open and globally accessible. Beta semester begins Sep 15
• 12 courses on offer. From HTML5 to Reading Code to Python Programming.
• Learn more and contribute at drumbeat.org/p2pu-webcraft
• Drumbeat project CrisisCommons Event this Friday. CrisisCamp Silicon Valley
  
• Sign up for the Drumbeat newsletter. Get the lowdown on Drumbeat projects
  

Speakers

The limit is 3 minutes per speaker. It's like a lightning talk, but don't feel that you have to have slides in order to make a presentation.

Title	Presenter	Topic	Media	More Details
General Browsing, Private Browsing	Hamilton Ulmer	A handful of insights on how long the browser stays open, as well as how long people stay in private browsing.	http://bit.ly/ciKc9J, http://bit.ly/cKNqqU, http://bit.ly/bOd4sP
Mozilla Community Map	David Boswell	Demo and update on Community Map	http://www.mozilla.org/community
Add-ons API Coverage - Where we stand	Daniel Buchner	Demo the coverage/competitive comparison table	http://people.mozilla.com/~dbuchner/pages/apicoverage/index.html

Status Updates By Team

Messaging

• Ongoing work on various experimental Thunderbird add-ons:
  • QuickLook integration on OS X
  • MuteThread for ignoring threads in email
  • DataMiners offers users interesting handling of detected data in messages (eg slideshow of image attachments)

IT

Last Week

• Half way through the San Jose router upgrades (going so well, no one even knew we started).

This Morning

• Faulty optic in a San Jose router caused some connectivity issues. Have that interface disabled and are en route to replace optics.

This Week

• Amsterdam datacenter move: after a number of slips, it's actually moving this week.
  • site will go offline during Tuesday local time while hardware is moved
  • users will be directed to US-based sites instead

QA

QA Org Highlights

• Hiring
  • Cameron Dawson, offer accepted. Start date 08/30
  • Naoki Hirata, offer accepted. Start date 08/30
• Browser Technologies
  • still testing pre-alpha releases for Fennec
  • Signed off changes for production Sync services
  • Signed off on Firefox Home Beta3, still are looking at some testing logistics for L10N testing.
• Desktop Firefox
  • begin release testing for 1.9.2.9 and 1.9.1.12
  • finishing up FF 4 Beta4 testing, should be signed off Monday assuming issues with the PPC builds are resolved.
• QA Services
  • Community
    • Nightly tester alias is doing well. 110 people signed up so far and some good discussion around what nightly testers are observing. You can sign up here https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/nightly-testers

Automation & Tools

• Grafx bot UI updates are done, working on a small feature needed to restart the browser to switch between hardware & software rendering mode on Linux and Mac. Should be ready for Beta 5
• Bug Hunter VM rollout begins this week in Phoenix colo.
• Firebug test harness is now packaged python module - runFBTests
• The Automation & Tools staging buildbot staging environment should be online this week
• We're getting folks ready to help out with removing universal xp connect from mochitest a la bug 582472
• We also want to ensure that Debug CRT exceptions do not throw up modal dialogs on windows, so we are going to land a patch for bug 587982
• More information on our team page.

Engagement

PR

• Firefox 4 Beta 4 Hits Monday With Unlockable Hardware Acceleration
• Firefox 4 beta 4 gets GPU acceleration
• Tab Candy to Become a Standard Feature in Firefox
• Tab Candy to Become Standard For Firefox

• Mozilla Launching Fennec 2.0 Alpha in Coming Weeks, Beta Begin this Fall
• Mozilla Fennec 2 beta browser for Android, MeeGo coming this Fall
• Mozilla preps Fennec 2 Alpha for MeeGo and Android

Community

• Community Marketing Call: Next call is Wednesday, August 25th at 10 a.m. PST/17:00 UTC. Please send agenda items to mary at mozilla dot com.
  • You can watch the call live on Air Mozilla or dial in:
    • +1.650.903.0800, followed by 92# and then 7391#
    • Or you can use our toll-free number: +1.800.707.2533, followed by 369# and then 7391#. If you're outside the US, use Skype to call in with our toll-free number.
  • For those that can't make the call or want to participate online, join us in #marketing on IRC (irc.mozilla.org).

Events

• Maker Faire Africa - August 27-28, 2010; Nairobi, Kenya - William Quiviger, Raymond Etornam, Kwamena Apphia and Alex Wafula representing Mozilla / Mozilla is main sponsor this year
• DjangoCon.us 2010 - September 7 - 9th; Portland Oregon - Sponsoring and a few Mozilla web devs will be in attendance
• OWASP AppSec USA 2010 - September 7-10th; Southern California - This year we will have a booth, we are an organizational supporter and we have a speaking slot.  Follow the wiki for more updates on our presence.
• Renegade Craft Fair Chicago 2010 - September 11-12, 2010 - We will have a booth and be doing some innovative activities.  Check out the wiki for more details Looking into sponsorship opportunities.
  
• Y4IT 2010 - September 14-17, 2010; University of the Philippines Dilman, Quezon City Philippines - We are sponsoring and will have a table - the Philippines community will be representing Mozilla.
• Open Video Conference 2010 - October 1-2, 2010; New York, NY  - Looking over sponsorship opportunities.
• German Community Meetup 2010 - September 18-19 (Cologne, Germany) - 25 active German/Swiss/Austrian contributors gathering for 2-day workshop to discuss goals for next 2 quarters
• Bi-annual Aviary.Pl meeting - October 2-4 (Poznan, Poland) - 3-day workshop of active Polish contributors to review past 6 months and plan 6 months ahead

Creative Team

Community Marketing

• Community Marketing Call: Next call is Wednesday August 25th at 10 a.m. PST/17:00 UTC. Please send agenda items to mary at mozilla dot com.

L10n

• Firefox Home will be released in 15 locales.
• Jetpack's l10n API implementation complete. Check this video screen cast by the contractor team from Indifex.
• The most recent Firefox 4 beta release will have localized version. 5 new locales participating
• 8 new locales on Firefox 4 nightlies starting today
• L10n-webdev i18n package started to make deploying websites easier.
  • Stas and Pascal created a template for services.mozilla.com that will be expanded for use to any new sites developed by web dev
  • Here's the patch showing a good start for the i18n package

Foundation Updates

• Mozilla 2010 T-shirts. They're awesome, they're fancy, they're all the rage. Tell your friends! http://mzl.la/bBM5YP
• Community map is live. See David Boswell's lightning talk above